The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
in Venice has received a major gift of 83 works at the bequest of
Hannelore B. Schulhof, who passed away on February 23. Heralded for
her
artistic passion and refinement, Hannelore honed an impressive
collection of postwar European and American art with her late husband
Rudolph
B. Schulhof (1912–1999). Officially becoming part of the collection as
of October 12, the body of work will reside permanently at
the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and be known as the “Hannelore B. and
Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection.”

Hannelore and Rudolph
Schulhof
met Peggy Guggenheim, a collector herself and niece of Solomon R.
Guggenheim, at the Venice Biennale in 1966, and formed a
friendship
with her based on their mutual passion for art. During their lifetime,
the couple served on numerous museum boards and foundations; Mr.
Schulhof was a trustee for the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Foundation from 1993 to 1999, and Mrs. Schulhof as a Charter (Founding) Member of the
Peggy Guggenheim Collection Advisory Board in 1980.

The collection features artists such as Alexander Calder, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Eduardo Chillida, Ellsworth
Kelly, Willem de Kooning, Lucio Fontana, Jean Dubuffet, Jasper Johns, Donald
Judd, Anish Kapoor, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol. A
sculpture garden named in commemoration of the couple will also house works by
Tony Caro, Barbara Hepworth, Jenny Holzer, Anish Kapoor, and Isamu
Noguchi, among others. Given Peggy Guggenheim’s personal focus on art dating prior
to World War II, Philip Rylands, the Director of the Puggy Guggenheim
Collection in Venice, notes that the “Schulhofs began their collecting where
Peggy left off, so their collection represents a perfect fit, extending and
enriching seamlessly the Venice museum’s postwar art with great works by great
artists.” The addition of the collection will extend the reach of the Peggy
Guggenheim Collection’s artworks into the 1970s and '80s.

In
celebration of these new additions to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the
Venice museum will open free to the public from 5–8 pm on October 12, exhibiting
significant works from this collection for the first time.